Dance While You Can

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Keep calm and play guitar. - Unknown

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. - James Brown

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

I'm aging like fine wine. I'm getting complex and fruity. - Unknown

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. - Joan Jett

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. - Mihkail Baryshnikov

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've go to do it 24 7. That's what I do. - Sammy Hagar

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

By the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. - John Entwistle

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt